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Solar PV Permit Fee Campaign News Release for Commercial Projects
The Sierra Club (Loma Prieta Chapter) has initiated a campaign to encourage municipalities in Silicon Valley to support the installation of large-scale solar power systems on non-residential structures by lowering permit fees. In October 2010, the Sierra Club formally asked municipalities with unreasonably high commercial solar permit fees to consider lowering them to cost-recovery levels. From 2008 to 2010, Sierra Club volunteers surveyed all the municipalities in Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to determine their estimated permit fees for installing roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems on commercial buildings. Such structures can include office buildings, stores, industrial facilities, schools, churches, government and non-profit buildings. Volunteers conducted this survey for three system sizes (8 kW, 49 kW and 131 kW). A ground breaking companion report has just been published for the Sierra Club’s Commercial PV permit fee campaign. It may be the first in-depth fee study published in the U.S.A. for commercial PV projects.
The Sierra Club (Loma Prieta Chapter) has initiated a campaign to encourage municipalities in Silicon Valley to support the installation of large-scale solar power systems on non-residential structures by lowering permit fees. In October 2010, the Sierra Club formally asked municipalities with unreasonably high commercial solar permit fees to consider lowering them to cost-recovery levels. From 2008 to 2010, Sierra Club volunteers surveyed all the municipalities in Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to determine their estimated permit fees for installing roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems on commercial buildings. Such structures can include office buildings, stores, industrial facilities, schools, churches, government and non-profit buildings. Volunteers conducted this survey for three system sizes (8 kW, 49 kW and 131 kW). A ground breaking companion report has just been published for the Sierra Club’s Commercial PV permit fee campaign. It may be the first in-depth fee study published in the U.S.A. for commercial PV projects.
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